Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning,... The British Prose Writers - Стр. 1651821Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Richard Hiley - 1846 - Страниц: 330
...distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore,...the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.— Essays. John Milton, born 1608, died 1674. him,... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1846 - Страниц: 778
...few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. .... Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore...the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep ; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores.f . . . The Fifty-first,... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1846 - Страниц: 732
...some few to he read wholly, and with diligence and attention Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore...Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, suhtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, ahle to contend. Aheunt studia... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1846 - Страниц: 226
...some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore...need have a present wit; and if he read little, he bad need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not./ Histories make men wise ; poets, witty... | |
| 1846 - Страниц: 838
...nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse ; but to weigh and consider. " If a man write little, he had need have a great memory;...little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know what he doth not. Histories make men wise; Poets, witty; the Mathematics, subtle; Natural Philosophy,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - Страниц: 782
...be swallowed, and some few to bt chewed and digested. Reading maketh a full man, conference a irmly - - . have a present wit ; and if he read little, have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - Страниц: 712
...distilled waters, flashy things, ¡leading makcth a full man, conference a ready man, and writing аи year ! Thee Phœbus loves, and does inspire ; Phœbus...things upon earth, Life is no longer than thy mirth. kuow that he doth not. SIR WALTER RALEIGH. In the brilliant constellation of firent men which adorned... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - Страниц: 712
...meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading 47 ho confer little, he had need have a present wit ; anil if he read little, he had need have much cunning,... | |
| James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - Страниц: 344
...— flashy' things1. Reading' maketh a fuir man ; conference1 a ready' man ; and writing' an exact1 man. And, therefore, if a man write' little, he had need have present' wit1 ; if he confer1 little, he had need have a good1 memory'; and if he read' little, he... | |
| David Bates Tower - 1853 - Страниц: 444
...distilled books are like common distilled waters — flashy things. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a present wit ; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not... | |
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